Something Silent in Us Strengthens
“In the time we have remaining, Kaminsky asks that we commit to exaltation as an honest response to our beleaguered world.”
Kristen Millares Young on Ilya Kaminsky
All posts tagged: SAL Essay Series
My Dear collateral damage
“That language, rescued from the machinery of war, can offer the consolation of being looked upon in relation . . . to whom you are beloved.”
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on Solmaz Sharif
Not an Elegy
“Through lamentation and joy, Smith’s poems lean their head back and sing, Not yet.”
Image: “Dreams In Black and White”, 2013, courtesy of the artist, Shikeith
How to Listen to Water
Michelle Peñaloza on Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Oceanic
That Ocean Inside Us
Claudia Castro Luna on Violence and Silence in the Poems of Gregory Orr
Close Entanglements
Bill Carty on the poetry of A.E. Stallings
Like Sand, and Solid Ground
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on Stephanie Burt’s Advice from the Lights
Sierra Nelson: “The Great Punctuation: Alice Notley & Mother-Bright-Appearance”
“I believe poetry is language’s most radical possibilities, possibilities which include prose and what prose is capable of expressing, but with the freeing capability of moving beyond limiting grammatical structures and linguistic norms as needed.”
Daemond Arrindell: Moonlight, Gratitude, and Reading Ross Gay in this Political Moment
“The shine of the river. Geese. Visitors putting their feet up. The wheezing chest.”